Ten years of visionary artwork from a rare artist embraced by critics, spiritual leaders, and the general public during his lifetime.
Every once in a great while an artist emerges who does more than simply reflect the social trends of the time. These artists are able to transcend established thinking and help us redefine ourselves and our world. Today, a growing number of art critics, philosophers, and spiritual seekers believe they have found that vision in the art of Alex Grey. Transfigurationsis the eagerly awaited follow-up to Sacred Mirrors, one of the most successful art books of the 1990s. It includes all of Grey's major works completed in the past decade, including the masterful seven-paneled altarpiece Nature of Mind, called ""the grand climax of Grey's art"" by Donald Kuspit. Grey's portrayals of human beings blend scientific exactitude with visionary depictions of universal life energy, leading us on the soul's journey from material world encasement to recovery of our divinely illuminated core.
Foreword Albert Hofmann
Transfigurations An Artist's Journey Stephen Larsen
Early Years Performance Rites Hieros Gamos: Sacralizing Relationship Interview with Alex and Allyson Grey
The Sacred Mirrors Transfiguration
Alex Grey's Mysticism Donald Kuspit
Art and the Integral Vision A Conversation with Ken Wilber and Alex Grey
Nature of Mind
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors World Soul
Cosmic Christ Acknowledgments
"Grey's work, like all great transcendental art, is not merely symbolic or imaginary: it is a direct invitation to recognize and realize a deeper dimension of our very own being." Ken Wilber, author of Integral Psychology and The Eye of Spirit
Grey, AlexnAlex Grey is the author of
Sacred Mirrors and
The Mission of Art. His work has graced the album covers of Nirvana and the Beastie Boys, has appeared in
Newsweek, and has been exhibited around the world, including the New Museum and Stux Gallery in New York City, the Grand Palais in Paris, and the ARK exhibition space in Tokyo. In 1999 the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego honored Grey with a mid-career retrospective. He lives in New York with his wife, artist Allyson Grey, and their daughter, actress Zena Grey. In 2019, Alex Grey was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World" according to
Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.
Über den Autor
Alex Grey is the author of Sacred Mirrors and The Mission of Art. His work has graced the album covers of Nirvana and the Beastie Boys, has appeared in Newsweek, and has been exhibited around the world, including the New Museum and Stux Gallery in New York City, the Grand Palais in Paris, and the ARK exhibition space in Tokyo. In 1999 the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego honored Grey with a mid-career retrospective. He lives in New York with his wife, artist Allyson Grey, and their daughter, actress Zena Grey.
Visit the author's web site at http://www.alexgrey.com/.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword
Albert Hofmann
Transfigurations
An Artist's Journey
Stephen Larsen
Early Years
Performance Rites
Hieros Gamos: Sacralizing Relationship
Interview with Alex and Allyson Grey
The Sacred Mirrors
Transfiguration
Alex Grey's Mysticism
Donald Kuspit
Art and the Integral Vision
A Conversation with Ken Wilber and Alex Grey
Nature of Mind
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
World Soul
Cosmic Christ
Acknowledgments
Klappentext
Ten years of visionary artwork from a rare artist embraced by critics, spiritual leaders, and the general public during his lifetime.
